Turning Points: Finally Real

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This kind of long personal change--along with 30 years of legal changes that mean marriage doesn't take away a woman's civil rights anymore--made it possible for me to marry David Bale last year, when I was 66. Neither of us thought we wanted to get married, but because we both already had strong paths, we could discover how similar they were. David is the first person who has been with me in all the disparate parts of my life--one minute on a student bus political campaigning, the next at an elegant fund raiser.

All these years, I felt I was the only link between many different worlds. Now if I looked at that sea of faces at the Waldorf, there would be another person looking at the room with me--and understanding.

--As told to Francine Russo